MOT pass rate · 2025 data
Honda FIT MOT pass rate
The Honda FIT passed 86.09% of its 5,139 initial MOT tests in 2025 — above the 77.3% average across all cars tested that year. That is 8.8 percentage points better than average.
How the Honda FIT holds up with age
Every car fails the MOT more often as it gets older. What matters when you are buying is how steeply that happens for this particular model. These are the 2025 pass rates for the Honda FIT grouped by the vehicle's age at the time of the test.
| Age at test | Tests | Pass rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3–5 years | 64 | 79.69% |
| 6–10 years | 481 | 91.48% |
| 11 years and over | 4,522 | 85.65% |
Older Honda FIT examples test at least as well as younger ones in this data, which is uncommon and usually reflects how these cars are used and maintained rather than the age itself.
Why the Honda FIT fails its MOT
Across every Honda FIT that failed its 2025 MOT, the most common area of failure was lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment, accounting for 45.16% of all recorded failure items. These are the areas worth having checked before you buy, and worth budgeting for on an older example.
| Failure area | Share of failure items | Recorded items |
|---|---|---|
| Lamps, reflectors and electrical equipment | 45.16% | 826 |
| Suspension | 19.68% | 360 |
| Tyres | 11.15% | 204 |
| Visibility | 8.26% | 151 |
| Brakes | 5.63% | 103 |
| Steering | 5.3% | 97 |
How the Honda FIT compares
Ranked on pass rate, the Honda FIT sits 201st of 651 models in this data , and 3rd of the 12 Honda models covered . Honda as a whole averaged 78.73%, so this model runs 7.4 points ahead of its own brand average.
What this means when buying a used Honda FIT
A pass rate is a population average, not a verdict on the specific car in front of you. The average Honda FIT came to its 2025 test at 58,575 miles and 12.3 years old. Most examples tested were hybrid electric.
The useful check is the individual car's own MOT record: how many times it has failed, what for, and whether advisories keep reappearing. A recurring advisory on corrosion, suspension or brakes tells you far more than a model-wide average, and a mileage that does not move consistently between tests is a warning in itself.
Check a specific Honda FIT
Run the registration through a free MOT history check to see that car's test results, advisories and recorded mileages. For the risks an MOT never covers — outstanding finance, insurance write-off records, stolen markers and ownership history — a full car history check brings them together in one £15 report.
Also useful: mileage check · write-off check · free car check
Other Honda models
- Honda Jazz 80.64% pass rate · 339,768 tests
- Honda Civic 74.32% pass rate · 257,293 tests
- Honda CR-V 80.06% pass rate · 194,446 tests
- Honda HR-V 90.36% pass rate · 38,767 tests
- Honda Accord 69.27% pass rate · 22,890 tests
- Honda Insight 77.24% pass rate · 8,496 tests
Models with a similar pass rate
- Hyundai Tucson 85.88% pass rate
- Toyota Prius 86.68% pass rate
- Tesla Model 85.2% pass rate
- Audi Q5 86.09% pass rate
- BMW X1 85.23% pass rate
- Toyota RAV4 85.16% pass rate
Figures aggregated from the DVSA MOT Anonymised data set for 2025, class 4 initial tests only, contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Retests are excluded, so these are first-time pass rates.